Notes on Heavens

Camus tells us that there is one problem in philosophy, and that is the reason for not committing suicide.¹

Similarly, there is one problem in psychology, and that is, why does one ever dream of anything other than Heaven?

For about 18 months between 2020 and 2021, I dreamt of heavens. I do not mean any religious heaven. I believe in no such thing. I mean, a virtuous circle of awareness, which, in a dream, is a place.

I had never thought to imagine what a virtuous circle of awareness could or should be. I never thought to imagine what a heaven logically can be. I never thought to imagine what the social order of a heaven could or should be. These are the fundamental questions, precisely because we are so busy with every other issue. There is only the issue of heaven.

The following articles are a haphazard collection of essays about this topic. I realise that it deserves a book, but I am an unworthy author. I did not reason anything out consciously. Everything was presented to me as a lesson, either implicitly or explicitly, in dreams. Because I have lost the dreaming awareness necessary to get back to heavens, I have only my notes.

Footnotes

[1]: Il n’y a qu’un problème philosophique vraiment sérieux : c’est le suicide. Juger que la vie vaut ou ne vaut pas la peine d’être vécue, c’est répondre à la question fondamentale de la philosophie.